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transplant99 · 01-26-2009, 12:42 PM

Yup.....wife calls me about 3 hours ago...says she came home to an upstairs bathroom full of water. I race home to see whats up....seems the little feeder line from the water pipe to the tank had developed a leak at some point. So I turn off the water, mop up what i could, soak up what i could from the carpeting with towels etc... go downstairs and as i am loading the wet stuff into the washing machine.....i feel water dripping on my neck and head...look up and the ceiling is drooping about 2 feet and has an 8 foot diameter wet spot.....ugh.

So i poked some holes in the wet sheetrock that is the ceiling at this point and water has been draining for an hour into buckets. Brutal.

I hate.... HATE water leaks and such.

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habernac · 01-26-2009, 12:44 PM

happened at my parent's house a few years ago. Dad heard a hiss and couldn't find anything. He went to work, Mom phoned and told him the downstairs celing had just collapsed to to the weight of water on it. Good times.

transplant99 · 01-26-2009, 12:54 PM

No...havent called anyone yet.

looks like the draining is slowing down to dripping at this point...hoping it will hold and be able to be re-used after a few good doses of killz....and a new paint job. Other wise it will basically require a complete re-do of the laundry room.

GoinAllTheWay · 01-26-2009, 01:07 PM

On the upside, your home insurance should cover it (assuming it's worth your time financially to do so) as it was not really a slow leak and you did what you could to minizmie further loss.

Pain in the butt, sure, but at least you should be able to fall back on that.

Those flexible steel pipes fotze mentioned are awesome. I use them to connect pretty much every water consuming device I have.

Shin Pad · 01-26-2009, 01:22 PM

You would be better off to take the wet ceiling right out, and allow the space above the ceiling to dry out completely. If it doesn't dry out completely, you have a great potential of mould (mold for you americans), developing in the unvented space above the ceiling.

millhouse11 · 01-26-2009, 01:26 PM

we had a water leak that ended up being from a baseboard nail that punctured the pex tubing and it took two years to work itself out. We were lucky someone was home and we got a plumber in who was able to isolate the leak fairly quickly.

Bobblehead · 01-26-2009, 01:30 PM

At a condo I was renting in Coach Hill, after a night of rain there was a drip in the living room. I called the management company, and they sent over a roofer. He looked, said he found one spot but he didn't think it was the problem, but he fixed it anyways.

Next rain, much more water. MUCH more. As in it filled a bucket in 20 minutes. This is during Stampede and I had guests in town, and was not happy. Roofing guy comes by immediately and in the still pouring rain, tries to find the leak. No luck.

Next rain, more water. This time management comes along with the roofing guy. They decide to pull the ceiling down so they can see where the water is coming from. Besides, the sheetrock is weeping, the ceiling is in trouble. So the whole sloppy insulation/drywall mess comes down. Looks like it is coming in from beside the chimney. So they call a siding guy.

He comes in a goes nuts with the silicone between the siding and the brick chimney.

Next rain, more water.

I call the condo rental management and this time tell them to send BOTH guys together.

They did, and determined that it was the siding that was the issue, so they pulled off a few layers and reseated it (and the roofing guy gave the siding guy crap for all the silicone - the roofer seemed to be by FAR the better sub). Then no more water.

Of course, they had to re-do the ceiling of the living room, which took a couple more months.

Water leaks suck.

4X4 · 01-26-2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by millhouse11

we had a water leak that ended up being from a baseboard nail that punctured the pex tubing and it took two years to work itself out. We were lucky someone was home and we got a plumber in who was able to isolate the leak fairly quickly.

That's just lazy plumbing installation, pure and simple. The guy that did the install cut the hole too close to one side of the wall, and then after doing that, never bothered to put a metal guard over it to at least avoid the 1/100 chance that a baseboard nail or drywall screw punctures it. I hate slackers.

REDVAN · 01-26-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

That's just lazy plumbing installation, pure and simple. The guy that did the install cut the hole too close to one side of the wall, and then after doing that, never bothered to put a metal guard over it to at least avoid the 1/100 chance that a baseboard nail or drywall screw punctures it. I hate slackers.

I thought you called them strugglers?

4X4 · 01-26-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by REDVAN

I thought you called them strugglers?

Nooo... A struggler is someone that cannot comprehend how to do something better or even properly. A slacker is someone that does a crappy job at someone else's place, but does it properly when it's his own.

Bill Bumface · 01-26-2009, 10:46 PM

Yeah, don't cheap out on the fix for that. You're talking to a guy who hasn't lived in his place for a month because of toxic mould. Hurray!

Bagor · 01-26-2009, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

That's just lazy plumbing installation, pure and simple. The guy that did the install cut the hole too close to one side of the wall, and then after doing that, never bothered to put a metal guard over it to at least avoid the 1/100 chance that a baseboard nail or drywall screw punctures it. I hate slackers.

At least he cut a hole.

I did my bathroom a while back ... complete gut. The fella that ran the 1 and a half bath drain when the house was being built seemed to think the best way would be to cut a couple of feet out of 2 of the joists.

Joists are so overrated.

I agree not to cheap out.

Barnes · 01-26-2009, 11:16 PM

In our old condo, we had hot water base board heaters and the valve was in our bedroom. We had a portable humidifier and the carpet was a little wet underneath so I turned it off and let the carpet dry thinking the humidifier was leaking a little.

Two weeks later, I dropped something beside a dresser and when I bent down to pick it up noticed the carpet was still damp. I pulled the dresser out and there were mushroom growing on the carpet. Like ones you would see in the dark corner of you backyard. Took me a week to fix the damage. The valve was leaking about half a drop every 2 minutes or so.

In our new house last year, we had construction garbage catch on fire in our furnace and the seal on our dishwasher fail and ruin the island cabinets all in the same week.

Two weeks ago, I was messing around in our attic and the access hatch got jammed in the frame and I kinda forgot about it. Well the hot air condensed and froze on the roof and when it got warm melted and started coming out all my light fixtures and smoke detectors.

I feel ya. Owning your own home is so much fun!

transplant99 · 01-27-2009, 06:38 AM

Well....i ended up cutting a hole in the ceiling as it just wasnt going to dry properly..and the water was collecting near the overhead light fixture.

Going to just gut it and re-do it all.

ken0042 · 01-27-2009, 09:29 AM

I remember seeing on an episode of Holmes on Homes where there was a water issue, and they sprayed a mould inhibitor on the wood that was exposed to help prevent the growth of mould. Not sure if that's something you could just buy at Home Depot, but I got the impression it wasn't that expensive for the peace of mind it gives.